TJ MedelPrologue: Are You My Mother?A New Jersey native, TJ has featured, performed, and educated around the nation in over 150 schools, colleges, and venues. The most notables being Florida State University, Rutgers, Duke, Madison Square Garden, The Legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York, and the historical Green Mill in Chicago. He has been on the 2006 New Jersey Youth Slam Team in HBO’s Brave New Voices, ranked top 20 in the 2007 New York Knicks Poetry Slam Series, and in 2009 became the Southern Fried Regional Individual Poetry Slam Champion, earning him the title "King of the South". He would like to thank his family and friends for their realness and dopeness. Work hard. Play hard. Back to cast index page